Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-05
PROMINENT ONES,

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON smokes
cigarettes.
MAGGIE MITCHELL calls her daughter
Fanchon.
BUFFALO BILL writes home that he
is very tired.
MARX TWAIN will be So years of age
in November.
The fortune of the late William A.
Kenneally. who died in Brooklyn in
1859, is still without an heir. Good
investments have swelled it to
100000.
Miss KATE II. KIMBALL, whose name
is household word among the 1OO,-
| 600 members of the Chautauqua
circles in her capacity as secretary Of
the university, is still young woman
in her twenties.
The King OF Sweden will soon make
q visit to the Car of Russia. 1t is
understood that King Oscar intends
to invite the Car and the Prince of
Wales to great hunt, which is about
to take place in the forests Of South
ern Sweden.
ABELARDO ZELAvA, the vice.presi-
dent of the republic of Honduras, is
such an ardent admirer of this coun-
try that he will visit it hereafter every
year. He made his first visit to this
country two years ago, and recently
| returned from his second.
THE Danish writer Thomas LANCE
died at Lyngby on the Oath OF August
of blood poisoning. He was born in
| 1929. OF Lange's novels, of which
| the Danish newspapers enumerate ten
or twelve, the best known is "Aaen og
Havet," ('"The Streamlet ard the
Sea.") 100
Col. ALFONSO BARTECE has dona
| ed his valuable collection of manu-
scripts to the national library of Ma.
piles. It contains several hundred let
| ters of celebrated personages, such as
Bartolomeo Borghese, Pietro Giorda-
nj, Cardinal Pacca, Queen Maria Car
DINA, Garibaldi, Gladstone, Ricasoli,
etc.
ERNEST LEGoUvE, author of
'Adrienne Lecouvreur, although 80
years old, is one of the best readers of
Paris. His manner of life would do
credit to Chinaman, for he lives in
the old Stone house where he was born,
uses the study that his father used be-
| fore him, and rarely, if ever, leaves
Paris.
JULES VERNE has just begun an in
teresting and exciting story called the
''Chemin de France" in the Temps,
which promises to be one of his best,
and deals with the period of the
struggle between France and Ger
many, with the protectorate Napo-
| leon, and the Germanic confederation
of 1915.
THE death is announced in London
of Mrs. Etherington Guyton, better
known to the reading public as Emma
| Jane Worboise, after an illness last
ing two years. She was in her sixty.
third year. She was prolific writer
of poems on variety of themes, and
was the author OF popular ellie OF
DR.. Arnold"
KATKOFF was OF plebeian origin and
had hard fight to win his position
in the face of the proud aristocracy of
Russia. His father was a panamar
or sacristan of the Moscow cathedral,
and the future "power behind the
throne" was contemporary called
"Panamarvitch" by his FELLOWSHIP
dents at the university.
MISS CALDWELL, whose munifcent
gift for the foundation of O. Catholic
university is reported to have been
withdrawn, is living temporarily at
Manchester, Vt. She is an accom-
plished horsewoman and may be seen
every pleasant day riding over the
fine mountain road with Bishop
Spalding, of Illinois, as her only
escort.
SIR CHARLES Young, author OF slim
the Penman," whose death is an
nounced, was descended in the fema lie
line from Henry Lawrence, who served
as lord president OF Cromwell's coun-
Gil in 1853. He was the seventh bar
onet of his name. The third was the
Sir William Lawrence Young SO ia
nous as Disraeli's opponent during
| the parliamentary elections in 1886.
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